Hi Simon, On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Simon Smith wrote:
> I was wondering if it was possible (and if so, how) to set the > password for a new Rackspace instance. AFAIK, the Rackspace API doesn't currently provide a mechanism to launch a node with a custom password. The API itself does allow one to change the password via a PUT method to /servers/:id [1] but this is not exposed by the libcloud driver. Luckily, the latest and greatest for libcloud has been tackling such deployment issues and providing workarounds such as using SSH to access and update the password [2]. Also, it's probably not immediately obvious, but create_node() does not raise an exception or issue a warning for unused arguments. [1] http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/servers/api/v1.0/cs-devguide-20091015.pdf p.28 [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-libcloud/201003.mbox/%[email protected]%3e Cheers, Jerry
